Pomegranate roads : a Soviet botanist's exile from Eden / Gregory Moiseyevich Levin ; translated from the Russian by Margaret Hopstein

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Forestville, Calif. : Floreant Press , c2006.Description: x, 183 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780964949768
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 92 LEV
LOC classification:
  • QK31.L47 L48 2006
Summary: As a child during the German siege of Leningrad, Gregory Levin saved his mother from dying of scurvy by boiling up pine needles. As a young botanist, he foraged beneath many trees of knowledge before committing his life to studying the pomegranate, the ruby globe whose beauty tempted Persephone, and as Levin believes, Adam and Eve.
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As a child during the German siege of Leningrad, Gregory Levin saved his mother from dying of scurvy by boiling up pine needles. As a young botanist, he foraged beneath many trees of knowledge before committing his life to studying the pomegranate, the ruby globe whose beauty tempted Persephone, and as Levin believes, Adam and Eve.

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